To provide help, hope, and healing, along with individualized options that will give support to victims of physical, verbal, emotional and sexual violence as they regain self-esteem and control of their lives. To encourage better treatment, specialized counseling, and more respect for victims of violent crime. To provide education and increase awareness about violent crime victimization and its impact on our lives and our community, and to specifically target domestic violence in an effort to help break the intergenerational cycle of abuse.

"Because the sanctity of human life, the dignity of marriage as a union of husband and wife and the freedom of conscience and religion are foundational principles of justice and the common good, we are compelled by our Christian faith to speak and act in their defense. In this declaration we affirm: 1) the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every human being as a creature fashioned in the very image of God, possessing inherent rights of equal dignity and life; 2) marriage as a conjugal union of man and woman, ordained by God from the creation, and historically understood by believers and non-believers alike, to be the most basic institution in society and; 3) religious liberty, which is grounded in the character of God, the example of Christ, and the inherent freedom and dignity of human beings created in the divine image."